qtconsole does not work with pyqt5 5.11 ("ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sip'")
See original GitHub issueOn a fresh windows machine with python 3.7.0, after installing the following:
pip install ipython notebook qtconsole pyqt5
Running ipython qtconsole
opens an Error startin QtConsole
dialog with the following error:
---------------------------
Error starting QtConsole
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", mod_spec)
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Scripts\ipython.exe\__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
sys.exit(start_ipython())
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\IPython\__init__.py", line 125, in start_ipython
return launch_new_instance(argv=argv, **kwargs)
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\traitlets\config\application.py", line 657, in launch_instance
app.initialize(argv)
File "<decorator-gen-113>", line 2, in initialize
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\traitlets\config\application.py", line 87, in catch_config_error
return method(app, *args, **kwargs)
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\IPython\terminal\ipapp.py", line 308, in initialize
super(TerminalIPythonApp, self).initialize(argv)
File "<decorator-gen-7>", line 2, in initialize
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\traitlets\config\application.py", line 87, in catch_config_error
return method(app, *args, **kwargs)
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\application.py", line 450, in initialize
self.parse_command_line(argv)
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\IPython\terminal\ipapp.py", line 303, in parse_command_line
return super(TerminalIPythonApp, self).parse_command_line(argv)
File "<decorator-gen-4>", line 2, in parse_command_line
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\traitlets\config\application.py", line 87, in catch_config_error
return method(app, *args, **kwargs)
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\traitlets\config\application.py", line 514, in parse_command_line
return self.initialize_subcommand(subc, subargv)
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\application.py", line 243, in initialize_subcommand
return super(BaseIPythonApplication, self).initialize_subcommand(subc, argv)
File "<decorator-gen-3>", line 2, in initialize_subcommand
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\traitlets\config\application.py", line 87, in catch_config_error
return method(app, *args, **kwargs)
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\traitlets\config\application.py", line 445, in initialize_subcommand
subapp = import_item(subapp)
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\ipython_genutils\importstring.py", line 31, in import_item
module = __import__(package, fromlist=[obj])
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\qtconsole\qtconsoleapp.py", line 60, in <module>
from qtconsole.qt import QtCore, QtGui
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\qtconsole\qt.py", line 23, in <module>
QtCore, QtGui, QtSvg, QT_API = load_qt(api_opts)
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\qtconsole\qt_loaders.py", line 365, in load_qt
result = loaders[api]()
File "c:\users\ieuser\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\qtconsole\qt_loaders.py", line 270, in import_pyqt5
import sip
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sip'
The same error will appear if trying to run the command:
import sip
from a python shell, however the following works OK:
from PyQt5 import sip
Thanks!
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pip install pyqt5==5.10.1
Ok, I’ll look at it tomorrow. Thanks.